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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

How Spitting Image treated the PMs
1963-1966:Rab Bulter(Conservative)
1964(coalition with Liberals):James Callaghan(Labour),Jo Grimond(Liberal)
1966-1971:Michael Foot(Labour)
1966:Rab Bulter(Conservative),Jo Grimond(Liberal)
1971-1973:Enoch Powell(Conservative)
1971:Michael Foot(Labour),Jeremy Thorpe(Liberal)
1973-1980:Geoffrey Howe(Conservative)
1975:Anthony Crossland/Jeremy Thorpe(Labour/Liberal)
1980-1990:David Owen(Labour)
1980:Geoffrey Howe(Conservative),David Steel(Liberal)
1982:Tom King(Conservative),David Steel(Liberal)
1987:Michael Heseltine(Conservative),David Steel(Liberal)
1990-1992:Neil Kinnock(Labour)
1992-1996:Norman Tebbit(Conservative)

1992:Neil Kinnock(Labour),David Steel/David Icke(Liberal/Reform)
1996-2001:John Prescott(Labour)
1996:Norman Tebbit(Conservative),David Steel/David Icke(Liberal/Reform)
 


Trent Lott - North America's Last Dictator

Presidents of the Republic of Mississippi
1994-0000: Trent Lott (Independent)
1994 def. Thad Cochran (Independent), Haley Barbour (Mississippi Popular Front), Mike Espy (Independent), Lester Spell (Farmers')
2001 def. Ray Mabus (Independent)
2006 def. Erik Fleming (United Democratic Front)
2010 def. various independents and opposition parties
2015 def. various independents and opposition parties
2020 def. Omeria Scott (Independent)


Emerging from the rubble of post-Communist America relatively in tact, the former State of Mississippi could never move passed the authoritarian impulses and Federal-philia that were briefly popular among its neighbors. Mississippi's first presidential election would see the ascension of State Representative and former Commissar of State Agriculture Trent Lott. Lott, a self professed authoritarian and federalist, was an unorthodox President for a nation that had seemingly just rejected both authoritarianism and federalism. Lott's Browderite biography and his competent record in the agriculture sector enchanted voters who were already longing for the stability of the American Federal Socialist Union. Lott's longtime refusal to change the existing social credit system (in contrast to many of his neighbors) and his close relationship with Texas oil barons and later American Union President Neil Bush contributed to the survival of his regime. What has contributed more to his regime's survival, however, is Lott's rigging of elections and arresting, torturing, and even executing his political rivals. More than all else, Lott rules on fear and intimidation.

But the times are changing. Recent economic tribulations and the weakening of the Western Bloc in the face of the Eurasian and the Hind superpowers, as well the increasing activism of Mississippians against Lott's authoritarian government has sparked the flame of what very well might be a Mississippian Revolution.
 
A Series of President Smiths (Pt. 1)

1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
(with Joseph Smith) 1860 def. John C. Breckenridge (Southern Democratic), John Bell (Constitutional Union), Stephen A. Douglas (Democratic)
(with Joseph Smith) 1864 def. Andrew Johnson (Democratic)

1865-1873: Joseph Smith (Republican)
(with Hannibal Hamlin) 1868 def. George H. Pendleton (Democratic)
1873-: John Creswell (Republican)
(with Schuyler Colfax) 1872 def. James A. Bayard (Democratic)

Just a quickie, Joseph Smith never founds Mormonism, instead he becomes a political ally of Seward, and he's selected to be Lincoln's VP, and Lincoln never trades him for a Union Party gambit. Stuff breaks, Lincoln dies, Smith enacts a Radical Reconstruction, land redistribution and all.
 
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A hypothetical I had where Perot starts his political bid earlier.
So this inspired me to do this;

To Reform America: Presidents of the USA List
1989-1993: George H.W.Bush (Republican)

1988 (With Dan Quayle) def: Micheal Dukakis (Democratic), Ross Perot (Independent)
1993-1997: Ross Perot (Reform)
1992 (With Jerry Brown) def: George H.W.Bush (Republican), Al Gore (Democratic)
1997-2005: Paul Wellstone (Democratic)
1996 (With Bill Bradley) def: Ross Perot (Reform), Dan Quayle (Republican), Ralph Nader (Green)
2000 (With Bill Bradley) def: Angus King (Reform), Pat Buchanan (Republican), Ralph Nader (Green)

2005-2013: Jesse Ventura (Reform)
2005 (With Carole Keeton Strayhorn) def: Bill Bradley (Democratic), Pat Buchanan (Republican), LaDonna Harris (Green)
2008 (With Lincoln Chafee) def: Dick Gephardt (Democratic), Mitch McConnell (Republican)

2013-2021: Deval Patrick (Democratic)
2012 (With Jim Hightower) def: Lincoln Chafee (Reform), Mitch McConnell (Republican), Gary Johnson (Independent Reform)
2016 (With Denise Juneau) def: Gary Johnson (Reform), Ted Cruz (Republican), Howie Hawkins (Green)

2021-: Bob Iger (Reform)
2020 (With Tulsi Gabbard) def: Tom Steyer (Democratic), Ted Cruz (Republican), Denise Juneau (Green Future!)
 
CURRENT POLITICS

1981-1988: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1980 (with George Bush) def. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1984 (with George Bush) def. Walter Mondale (Democratic)

1988-1989: Alexander Haig (Republican)
1989-1993: Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988 (with Al Gore) def. Alexander Haig (Republican), Jesse Jackson (Rainbow)
1993-1994: Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (with James Stockdale) def. Joe Biden (Democratic), Pat Robertson (Republican)
1994-1997: James Stockdale (Independent)
1997-2001: Donald Trump (United We Stand)
1996 (with James P. Hoffa) def. Al Gore (Democratic), Roberto Mondragon (Green), Bob Jones III (Republican)
2001-2005: Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union)
2000 (with Ralph Nader) def. John Kerry (Democratic), James P. Hoffa (Independent), Pat Buchanan (Republican), Donald Trump (United We Stand)
2005-2009: Hillary Rodham (Democratic)
2004 (with John McCain) def. Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union), Chuck Baldwin (Republican)
2009-2013: Bernie Sanders (Independent)
2008 (with Malik Rahim) def. Hillary Rodham (Democratic), Mark Sanford (Republican)
2013-2021: Michael Pence (Republican)
2012 (with Rick Santorum) def. Luis J. Rodriguez (Rainbow), Bill Richardson (Democratic)
2016 (with Rick Santorum) def. Rocky Anderson (Justice),
Colin Powell (Democratic)
2021-0000: Kamala Harris (Democratic Socialist)
2020 (with Pete Buttigieg) def. Rick Santorum (Republican)
 
A Curious Stagnation

1997-2010 Tony Blair (Labour Majority)
1997:Tony Blair-Labour[418],John Major-Conservative[165],Paddy Ashdown-Liberal Democrats[46]
2001:Tony Blair-Labour[413],William Hague-Conservative[166],Charles Kennedy-Liberal Democrats[52]
2005:Tony Blair-Labour[408],Iain Duncan Smith-Conservative[115],Charles Kennedy-Liberal Democrats[100],Linda Smith-RESPECT[1],Roger Knapman-UKIP[1], Robert Kilroy-Silk-Veritas[1],Caroline Lucas/Keith Taylor-Green[1],Robin Tilbrook-English Democrats[1],John Swinburne-SSCP[1],Kit Fraser/Don Lawson-Publican Party[1]

2009:Tony Blair-Labour[400],Peter Lilley-Conservative[112],Vince Cable-Liberal Democrats[110],Nigel Farage-UKIP[2],George Galloway-RESPECT[1],Robert Kilroy-Silk-Veritas[1],Caroline Lucas-Green[1],Robin Tilbrook-English Democrats[1],John Swinburne-SSCP[1],Nick Griffin-BNP[1]

2010-2018 Gordon Brown (Labour Majority)
2014:Gordon Brown-Labour[380],Vince Cable-Liberal Democrats[122],Chris Grayling-Conservative[100],Alec Salmond-SNP[23],Nigel Farage-UKIP[5],George Galloway-RESPECT[2],Robert Kilroy-Silk-Veritas[1],Caroline Lucas-Green[1]

2018-present day Ed Balls (Labour Majority)
2019:Ed Balls-Labour[355],Nick Clegg-Liberal Democrats[117],Gavin Williamson-Conservative[105],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP[38],Nigel Farage-UKIP[11],George Galloway-RESPECT[8],Jonathan Bartley-Green[1]
 
CURRENT POLITICS

1981-1988: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1980 (with George Bush) def. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1984 (with George Bush) def. Walter Mondale (Democratic)

1988-1989: Alexander Haig (Republican)
1989-1993: Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988 (with Al Gore) def. Alexander Haig (Republican), Jesse Jackson (Rainbow)
1993-1994: Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (with James Stockdale) def. Joe Biden (Democratic), Pat Robertson (Republican)
1994-1997: James Stockdale (Independent)
1997-2001: Donald Trump (United We Stand)
1996 (with James P. Hoffa) def. Al Gore (Democratic), Roberto Mondragon (Green), Bob Jones III (Republican)
2001-2005: Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union)
2000 (with Ralph Nader) def. John Kerry (Democratic), James P. Hoffa (Independent), Pat Buchanan (Republican), Donald Trump (United We Stand)
2005-2009: Hillary Rodham (Democratic)
2004 (with John McCain) def. Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union), Chuck Baldwin (Republican)
2009-2013: Bernie Sanders (Independent)
2008 (with Malik Rahim) def. Hillary Rodham (Democratic), Mark Sanford (Republican)
2013-2021: Michael Pence (Republican)
2012 (with Rick Santorum) def. Luis J. Rodriguez (Rainbow), Bill Richardson (Democratic)
2016 (with Rick Santorum) def. Rocky Anderson (Justice),
Colin Powell (Democratic)
2021-0000: Kamala Harris (Democratic Socialist)
2020 (with Pete Buttigieg) def. Rick Santorum (Republican)

no mumby stop this is actionable
 
CURRENT POLITICS

1981-1988: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1980 (with George Bush) def. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1984 (with George Bush) def. Walter Mondale (Democratic)

1988-1989: Alexander Haig (Republican)
1989-1993: Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988 (with Al Gore) def. Alexander Haig (Republican), Jesse Jackson (Rainbow)
1993-1994: Ross Perot (Independent)
1992 (with James Stockdale) def. Joe Biden (Democratic), Pat Robertson (Republican)
1994-1997: James Stockdale (Independent)
1997-2001: Donald Trump (United We Stand)
1996 (with James P. Hoffa) def. Al Gore (Democratic), Roberto Mondragon (Green), Bob Jones III (Republican)
2001-2005: Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union)
2000 (with Ralph Nader) def. John Kerry (Democratic), James P. Hoffa (Independent), Pat Buchanan (Republican), Donald Trump (United We Stand)
2005-2009: Hillary Rodham (Democratic)
2004 (with John McCain) def. Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union), Chuck Baldwin (Republican)
2009-2013: Bernie Sanders (Independent)
2008 (with Malik Rahim) def. Hillary Rodham (Democratic), Mark Sanford (Republican)
2013-2021: Michael Pence (Republican)
2012 (with Rick Santorum) def. Luis J. Rodriguez (Rainbow), Bill Richardson (Democratic)
2016 (with Rick Santorum) def. Rocky Anderson (Justice),
Colin Powell (Democratic)
2021-0000: Kamala Harris (Democratic Socialist)
2020 (with Pete Buttigieg) def. Rick Santorum (Republican)

my actual headcanon for this dumb gimmick list:

Iran-Contra all spills out into the open, Bush carries the can before Reagan gets done in, and Haig ends up an interim President, and the last Republican to sit in the Oval Office for over twenty years.

Biden manages to pull off a win - despite a leftist split that eventually feeds into Perot's movement - but his victory in 1988 ultimately parallels that of Carter twelve years earlier. The wheels start to fall off as a recession sets in in the early 90s, and Biden's free trade policies raise hackles across the political spectrum. While the Republicans are captured by the evangelical movement, Perot's independent run takes the country by storm - taking in all manner of malcontents from palaeoconservatives to Marxist-Leninists.

Perot ends up getting assassinated - albeit not by the New Blank Panthers as he imagined - but not before managing to pass a number of reforms. Possibly the most important to these was abolishing the electoral college and establishing a two round system of presidential election. Stockdale doesn't seek a term in his own right, allowing the Perot movement to cleave in twain - the bulk of it rallies behind quixotic billionaire Donald Trump. He triumphs over a divided opposition, and when the run-off is between him and the somewhat robotic personality of former V-P Al Gore, Trump runs away with the Presidency.

Trump is a disaster from the outset - though the thing people remember him for wouldn't surface until his final year in office. In the name of 'efficiencies', whole chunks of government were left fallow, without sufficient appointees to keep things trundling along. Rather than formally cutting departments, Trump elected to appoint a handful of cronies then allow them to whither. This slow-motion train crash finally came off the rails on New Years Eve, as the world ushered in a new millennium. The Y2K event that had been prophesied came home to roost, and Trump's lack of preparation and cuts to those bodies that may have helped prepare led to an economic disaster that ended the 'End of History' overnight.

Trump's own Vice President abandoned him, and thanks to the run-off system, the US enjoyed its most competitive presidential race in probably a couple of centuries. Bernie Sanders, initially standing as a leftist 'favourite son' not expected to perform highly beyond the bounds of the Green Mountain State ended up winning the ultimate prize.

Sanders' Presidency would be radical, in a way most Americans found jarring. And without a Congressional majority of any kind, he was a radical lameduck. While the economy began to stutter back into life with the President working hand-in-fist with the unions, what most Americans saw was a busted flush. And it was in these circumstances that Hillary Rodham - divorced from the former Governor of Arkansas - claimed the Presidency. A party system of a sort was beginning to solidify. Centrist Democrats opposed on either side by a 'Left' that changed its label every election and the hard-right Republicans.

This emergent party system ended up hitting Clinton as hard - if not harder than Sanders. It was exceptionally difficult to construct Congressional majorities and while theoretically the centrist position of the Democrats meant they should have been able to reach out to moderates in the other two parties, this is not what tended to happen. Crucially, the enormous vacancies in federal government opened up by Trump had been filled by Sanders, and a growing contingency of Leftists led to Sanders' name being repeated with nostalgia only a year into Clinton's Presidency. And that was before Hurricane Katrina or the 2007 crash.

It was in these circumstances that Sanders repeated the achievement of Grover Cleveland - and this time had much greater success. A narrow majority in Congress was now his and now he could truly get to work. And while Sanders could eventually leave office a satisfied man, with the legacy of universal healthcare, a jobs guarantee and gay rights, this radicalism finally galvanised the GOP into action.

Rodriguez was an ex-con, and the revelations of Richardson's behaviour was all too well-documented. The Republicans had ideal conditions, to get into second place, and amidst right-wing disgust at the vast reforms of the Sanders years, it was enough to push them over the line. Pence had become the first elected Republican President since Reagan, anointed by the hand of God. He would again be compared with Reagan by becoming the first consecutive two-term President since him as well. In opposition, the Democrats cleaved to the right attempting to stir up their base, while the Left experimented with yet another rebrand. But Pence had managed to restore the electoral college - and in circumstances that may have otherwise forced him to a run-off, he won a healthy majority.

It was in these circumstances that an electoral pact between the Democrats and the Left was forged. Their ticket was a pair of Marxist dynasts, with a pedigree in local government and the judiciary that the oldest party in America could approve of. And while the Republicans ploughed their furrow and nominated a fire-eyed moralist, the Democratic Socialists confirmed the existence of a new two party system.
 
21st of December

“As you have most likely already heard on the radio and seen on the television from today on all political parties have been banned. The National Security Council’s hard decision can be justified by the dangers that our nation faced up to today and which are still fresh in our memories. The American people, who are fed up with the years and years of political violence, have endorsed and not shielded away from supporting the military takeover. The President and Congress have been dismissed and all political parties have been made illegal. Following the violence caused by political parties and politicians the military, with the endorsement of the people, has felt it to be necessary to amend the constitution and form new political parties and elections. The people of our 50 states are expected to aid or at least not hinder the council during this process.

Unfortunately many have been continuing to share pieces of propaganda and argue about political decisions. Due to such actions the pursuit of happiness of the American people cannot be fulfilled. To halt these problematic actions it has been deemed necessary to introduce the 28th amendment which will protect the American people from political violence.

Let me once again state that the National Security Council has never considered to give power to just one political party or person. We strongly believe that our action was the only thing standing between the establishment of a dictatorship. The National Security Council strongly believes in freedom, democracy and the rule of law, but we must insist that such a broken system cannot be fixed easily and that we need an indefinite amount of time as has already been stated by Richard Helms in the press release.

We are aware that electoral democracy is a system that only works with political parties. Political parties are the backbone of daily political life, but just like in any other country in the world the wellbeing of our nation is dependent on the political parties’ honesty and integrity. Political parties cannot become institutions that weaken the state and put the population against one another. Political parties are there to protect the constitution and help the people in achieving life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not to put them against one snother.

The National Security Council is here to reinforce the strength of the United States and the freedom of our people and to strengthen the democratic system that cannot control itself until it once again stands on strong foundations as were estabilished by our founding fathers. Therefore the National Security Council has deemed it necessary to take over the governance of the United States of America”.

- Alexander Haig, Chairman of the National Security 1980 - 1982​
1961 - 1965: John F. Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)
1960: Richard Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Republican), Faithless Electors
1965 - 1969: Barry Goldwater / William Scranton (Republican)
1964: John F. Kennedy / George Smathers (Democrat)
1969 - 1971: Ronald Reagan (Republican) / John Connally (Democrat)
1968: Ronald Reagan / Rogers Morton (Republican), Hubert Humphrey / John Connally (Democrat), George Wallace / John Wayne (American Independent)
1971 - 1972: vacant / John Connally (Democrat)
1972 - 1973: David Rockefeller (Independent) / vacant
1973 - 1973: vacant / Kevin White (Democrat)

1972: Hubert Humphrey / Kevin White (Democrat), Ronald Reagan / Gerald Ford (Republican), George Wallace / Ezra Taft Benson (American Independent), Eugene McCarthy / Shirley Chisholm (Peace & Freedom)
1973 - 1974: Hubert Humphrey / Kevin White (Democrat)
1974 - 1975: Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) / vacant
1975 - 1977:
Ronald Reagan / Gerald Ford (Republican)
1977 - 1978: Ronald Reagan / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1976: Hubert Humphrey / Mike Gravel (Democrat), Ronald Reagan / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican), Paul Weyrich / Richard Viguerie (Salvation), Roger Macbride / Ed Clark (Libertarian), George Wallace / John Rarick (American Independent), Huey Newton / Tom Hayden (The 76) [The 76 electors in Washington D.C. not recognized by Supreme Court]

1978 - 1979: vacant / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1979 - 1979: Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) / vacant
1979 -
1980: Mo Udall (Democrat) / vacant
1980 - 1980: Elmo Zumwalt (Independent) / vacant

1980 - 1982: Alexander Haig (National Security Council)


1980 Election First Round: Ronald Reagan / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican), George McGovern / Frank Church (Democrat), George Wallace (American Independent), Barry Goldwater Jr. / John Hospers (Libertarian)
1980 Election Second Round: (Results Disputed)

Both candidates claimed victory after the second recount. Election declared null and void on the 21st of December 1980. Alexander Haig declared Chairman of the National Security Council. Democracy restored in 1982 following the formation of the National Union Party and inauguration of Chairman Alexander Haig as President. Previously banned parties once again legalized in 1994.
 
And the sequel.

1982 - 1985: Alexander Haig / Jack Kemp (National Union)
1985 - 1992: Jack Kemp / John B. Anderson (National Union)
1984: Dick Gephardt / Ernest Hollings (Union), Bo Gritz / Pat Buchanan (National)

1988: Skip Humphrey / Thomas McIntyre (Democratic Populist), Ronald Reagan / Paul Laxalt (New Wave)
1992 - 1993: John B. Anderson (National Union) / vacant
1993 - 1993: Ronald Reagan / Lynn Martin (New Wave)
1992: Ronald Reagan / Lynn Martin (New Wave), John B. Anderson / John Silber (National Union), Skip Humphrey / Harris Wofford (Democratic Populist), Jerry Falwell / Antita Bryant (Christian Democrat), George McGovern / Harold Washington (Labor)
1993 - 1993: Lynn Martin (New Wave) / vacant
1993 - 1997: Lynn Martin (New Wave) / Dean Barkley (Independent)
1997 - 1998:
Jerry Falwell (Christian Democrat) / Norman Schwarzkopf (Independent)
1996: Jerry Falwell / James Stockdale (Christian Democrat), Lynn Martin / James Baker (New Wave), John B. Anderson / Joe Lieberman (National Union), George McGovern / Marcy Kaptur (Labor), David Bonior / Barbara Mikulski (Democrat)
1998 - 2001: John B. Anderson / Norman Schwarzkopf (Independent)
2001 - 2005: George McGovern (Labor) / David Souter (Independent)
2000: George McGovern / Bill Bradley (Labor), Peter Navarro / Pat Buchanan (American), Gary Bauer / Phil Gramm (Christian Democrat), John B. Anderson / John McCain (National Union), Lynn Martin / James Baker (New Wave)

2005 - 2013: Mike Huckabee / Lamar Alexander (Justice)
2004: David Bonior / Chuck Schumer (Democrat), (Various Independent African-American protest votes)

2008: David Bonior / Bill Weld (Democrat), Peter Navarro / Rick Jore (American), (Thousand Hopes Coalition)
2013 - 2014: Mike Huckabee / William P. Barr (Justice)
2012: Chuck Schumer / Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat), Peter Navarro / Tom Tancredo (American), (Freedom Coalition)
2014 - 2021: Mike Huckabee / Rick Santorum (Justice)
2016: Mike Huckabee / Rick Santorum, Michael Flynn / Barbara Mikulski (Democrat-American), Cedric Richmond / Karen Bass (Rainbow)

2021 - 2099: Mike Huckabee (Justice) / Peter Navarro (American) (People’s Alliance: Justice-American)
2020: Howard Dean (Democrat) / Carly Fiorina (True American) (Nation Alliance: Democrat-True American), Chokwe Antar Lumumba [running from prison] / Barbara Lee (Rainbow)

Only candidates that won more than 10% shown.
 
Based upon a discussion I had on the other place with an author...
Circumstances are slightly different in 1970, enough that Nixon and Ted Kennedy come together and successfully pass a single-payer healthcare scheme in the US. Nixon still goes down after Watergate blows up in his face, and Ford serves as caretaker. However, there's enough conservative backlash to single-payer healthcare that Reagan manages to primary him and win the GOP nomination in 1976. He goes on to lose badly to Mo Udall in the general election.

Mo Udall, being far more competent at governance than Jimmy Carter, manages to largely avert the late '70s malaise and also handles the AIDS pandemic far more effectively, since he's not in the pocket of sociopathic Christian conservatives.

Thus we enter the 1980s with a more effectively managed federal government that's beginning to recover from the corruption and excess of the late 1960s, a chastened GOP that didn't manage to make evangelical Christians their demographic, and a sunnier, less consumerist national outlook. Also, it was around this time that people became aware of the danger that climate change posed, and since both parties are considerably saner, actual action is taken to reduce emissions and curb our reliance on fossil fuels. This helps us tell the Saudis to fuck off, which lessens their ability to promote international terrorism and has the knock on effect of making Israel slightly saner as well. In this world they successfully reach a two state agreement with the Palestinians and Netanyahu remains an Army officer, never getting into politics.

Speaking for the UK, Margaret Thatcher doesn't become PM (she's carried off by geese in the early 1970s and never seen again) and thus the situation in northern England, while still bad, doesn't become the utter apocalypse that it was in real life. In this world there's sensible governance that provides the unemployed with help retraining and puts actual thought into what sort of industry ought to replace the coal mines that are being shuttered. Also, Jeremy Corbyn remains a back-bencher in this world and never makes a play for being leader...because in this world there's no need for him to. I imagine that the Tories are also marginally better, and the Lib Dems remain uniquely and harmlessly incompetent. Also Sinn Fein is puddling around and not doing much of anything, since tensions in Northern Ireland never got quite as bad as they did under Thatcher.

The UK still enters the common market (with plenty of skepticism from the left) and enjoys a fairly warm relationship with the US, albeit slightly more strained than in real life since British PMs are more likely to want American bases to be moved and nukes to be dismantled. They don't actually do this (at least not until after the USSR collapses), but the sentiment is there and quite popular.

And...that's about all I can come up with on the fly. Pretty left-wanky, but still within the bounds of reality.
And my addition...
Oh a simple way to do that is a more chaotic 70s in which Heath wins in 1974, manages Britain badly, gets couped by Keith Joseph in 1976 who embraces Friedman...in the late 70s. 1978 Conservatives implode whilst Labour has finally elected Micheal Foot as leader who spends his brief time bringing about Nice Social Polices and the beginnings of Unilateral disarmament. Britain stays awkwardly in Europe though not all the way in. Conservatives go with Micheal Heseltine with 1987 and win, whilst Labour eventually spins the wheel and picks John Smith and after he loses a snap election, Margaret Beckett. Meanwhile Roy Jenkins joins the Liberals, David Owen leaves Labour to join the ‘Democratic Party’ (then his own offshoot Reform) and everyone is grumbling about Europe still.

Presidents of the Untied States 1969-2001:
1969-1974: Richard Nixon (Republican)

1968 (With Spiro Agnew) def: Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Wallace (American Independent)
1972 (With Spiro Agnew) def: George McGovern (Democratic)

1974-1977: Gerald Ford (Republican)
1977-1985: Mo Udall (Democratic)
1976 (With Tom Bradley) def: Ronald Reagan (Republican), Tom McCall (Unity)
1980 (With Tom Bradley) def: George Bush Sr. (Republican), Pat Buchanan (Conservative)

1985-1993: Howard Baker (Republican)
1984 (With Lowell Weicker) def: Walter Mondale (Democratic)
1988 (With Lowell Weicker) def: Joe Biden (Democratic), Jesse Jackson (RAINBOW 88!)

1993-1997: Lowell Weicker (Republican)
1992 (With Christine Todd Whitman) def: Paul Tsongas (Democratic), Ralph Nader (Reform)
1997-: Paul Wellstone (Democratic)
1996 (With Mickey Leland) def: Lowell Weicker (Republican), Ron Paul (Libertarian), Angus King (Reform)
2000 (With Mickey Leland) def: Bill Weld (Republican)


Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1970-2000:
1970-1976: Ted Heath (Conservative)

1970 (Majority) def: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974 (Majority) def: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thrope (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Dick Taverne (Democratic Labour)

1976-1978: Keith Joseph (Conservative)
1978-1987: Michael Foot (Labour)
1978 (Majority) def: Keith Joseph (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal), Dick Taverne (Democrats)
1983 (Majority) def: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal), David Owen (Democrats)

1987-1995: Micheal Heseltine (Conservative)
1987 (Majority) def: Michael Foot (Labour), David Penhaligon-Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler (Liberal Democratic Alliance), David Owen (Reform)
1990 (Majority) def: John Smith (Labour), Malcolm Bruce (Liberal Democrats), David Owen (Reform)
1995-: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
1995 (Majority) def: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Malcolm Bruce (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Milligan (Reform)
1999 (Majority) def: Ken Clarke (Conservative), Malcolm Bruce (Liberal Democrats), Alan Sked (Reform)

Essentially this world things are fine essentially if you want a perspective, much of the Religious Right stay to themselves or join the festering remains of Pat Buchanan's Conservative Party (imagine a nation wide AIP if you want an image of it). The Republicans are split between the Liberal Wing of Fiscal Conservatives and the Libertarians who still complain about big government. After the failures of the moderate Democrats, a Left Wing Populist revolution happens under Wellstone/Leland which wins the four way election of 1996.

Meanwhile in Britian things are chugging along the best they can since the anarchy of the 1970s in which Keith Joseph managed to turn Britain into the opening of a J.G.Ballard novel. Foot's time in office in comparison is less chaotic, though the cabinet is still chaotic due to the behind the scenes battles between Benn and Healey first and then later the modernisers Kinnock/Gould and John Smith. Heseltine wins 1987 on a campaign of essentially not being Keith Joseph and Europe. He wins a snap election in 1990 and manages 8 years of bringing Britain into the new world of finance and technology, but eventually there's a crash and Beckett swoops in (having been the comprise candidate between the Gould and Brown factions) and ushers in a new Britain.
 
May Peace Her Power Extend: A Timeline-191 Post-War Britain List.

Harold Macmillan (Independent Non-Partisan [de facto Unionist]) 1945-1947
"The Opportunist-in-Chief"
The superbombs destroyed the last hopes of the old regime. The Government surrendered, and Britain was placed under German occupation. Harold Macmillan was chosen by the German occupation force as a suitably non-partisan leader despite his known previous Mosleyite affiliation. He had a tough task ahead of him, to both satisfy the German forces and to reconstruct Britain. To his credit, he managed to balance the two reasonably well.

Then of course, the Tresckow Declaration ruined all of that. Macmillan's government was relying on promised reconstruction funds from Germany as long as the loans were signed upon, and once new Chancellor Henning von Tresckow turned against that promise, Macmillan lost support and resigned.

Duff Cooper (Independent Non-Partisan [de facto Unionist]) 1947-1950
"The Intemperate"
The German forces struggled to find anyone in the old Unionist circles [aka the circles they most trusted] that weren't instinctually anti-German for the sunbombs and the Tresckow Declaration. In the end, they chose a former junior minister most notable for managing communication. Cooper would return Britain to independent diplomacy under the table, both with France and in a limited extent, America. As Germany struggled to hold control...

His alcoholism would prove his fall, but before then he managed to negotiate for many ex-Unionist people out of execution in the Birmingham Trials which would lead to quite a few of them entering government in future decades. He was found dead in his office one warm summer day in 1950.

Horace Wilson (Independent Non-Partisan) 1950-1951
"The Most Unpopular Man in Britain"
With Cooper dead, the dwindling German forces finally returned to the caretaker Prime Minister they rashly removed. Wilson's government was focused on rebuilding, but with the Tresckow Declaration and Wilson's hesitance at going against Germany's diplomatic power, he sought to take out loans from German banks and up the taxation levels to pay for it all. This led to his government collapsing rapidly. Germany's finances was struggling [and the SPD was getting louder about "making a peace fit for heroes"] so they withdrew from Britain. Wilson resigned the next day.

T. E. Lawrence (Independent Non-Partisan, then National Democratic majority) 1951-1957
1954: def. Stafford Cripps (Socialist Labour)
"Lawrence the Vote"
With the Germans no longer "advising" the Queen, she finally appointed General Lawrence, the most high-ranking member of the Armed Forces not yet purged, due to being retired in the wartime years due to a motorcycle accident that drastically weakened his body. But his mind was strong, and he kept writing extensively, keeping him in the public memory. Seen as safely non-political, he was a clear choice for the Queen.

Lawrence set out to form a new, democratic, structure for the country. There was no election since 1935! That was intolerable. He gathered together democratic thinkers and worked out a new system, including the first Basic Charter defining human rights. There was to be no more of the old Blackshirt crimes, not in Lawrence's Britain. Federalists managed to shove through the convention a "home rule all round" provision as well.

While this was going on, Lawrence sought to reconstruct both Britain's domestic and foreign situations. The two were unseparatable. Those loans from German banks Wilson took out, those were on very unfavourable agreements. The only way to ever repay those was to intensely rebuild, and even then it would drive Britain further into debt. Lawrence realised that he had to rebuild Britain's diplomatic clout to pressure the banks to accept renegotiation.

The solution would come from Lyon, as Prime Minister Guy Mollet [a noted Anglophile] proposed to renew the old Anglo-French cooperation for mutual benefit. France took out similar loans under a former German-placed Prime Minister, and Mollet wished to coordinate a diplomatic response. The loans were declared to be "common Anglo-French loans", and pressure was put on the banks to renegotiate. They gave in, to many observers' surprise.

The reason they did was because Germany was having a bank run, and the German economy was in freefall. The renegotiation was seen as the only way out of the United Kingdom and France just calling their bluff. They were weaker than Germany, but unlike Germany, the British and French economies were slowly on the up and up. The British and French governments would cooperate a lot more after this, both seeing only common interest in cooperation. Any hint of working more with Germany or America was to be booed down as comparable to the appeasers Wilson and Laval.

The first election in close to twenty years was held in 1954, and it was to nobody's surprise a landslide for Lawrence's National Democratic Union. The success at getting the German banks to back down was the first real permanent success Britain tasted in oh so long. Lawrence was hailed as the hero Britain needed, no, deserved. Turnout was extremely high, and even Stafford Cripps' criticism was muted against the popular war hero.

After the election, Lawrence signed a renewal of the Entente Cordiale with France, and agreed to economic cooperation to strengthen both countries' recovery. This was the seeds for the later and tighter economic cooperation. The windfall for the promised surge in reconstruction was to come in 1956 as the Socialist Party returned to power in America. Despite their strong German-American base, the Socialist Party was by the 50s increasingly distrustful of Germany, especially when it consistently denied the SPD power [which was by then getting extremely unviable].

President Lovecraft was a known Anglophile who wrote bitterly of Germany's nuking of a city he adored. The nuking wiped away the last of his beliefs that the British and Germans were "brother nations". Hamburg was nothing compared to London! While he was still a firm supporter of German-Americans, he grew to truly at a base level despise Germany's current regime. While the tag-team "world police" would survive, Britain [and upon the Foreign Secretary's insistence due to the growing economic ties, France] would receive the long-awaited money for reconstruction.

One thing that got more notice in later administrations but that Lawrence started, was a strong anti-colonial foreign policy. Britain lost all its colonies due to the Great Wars, and France even lost Algeria in the Second, so it was in their interest to turn anti-colonial in their foreign policy. Sustained Anglo-French support of Syrian rebels would pester the Ottoman Empire for two decades until the Syrian Republic finally achieved independence.

It is the cruelest of fates that after so long of labouring for a new Britain out of the ashes, its greatest post-war Prime Minister would not see the glories ahead, as he died suddenly in 1957. "Lawrence Hall" was named after him in his honour, and it remains today the official residence of the Prime Minister.

Harold Nicolson (National Democratic majority) 1957-1962
1959: def. Aneurin Bevan (Socialist Labour)
"The Man on the Telly"
After haggling, it was agreed by the NDU inner circle that Nicolson the Foreign Secretary would succeed Lawrence, much to Chancellor Butler's displeasure. Nicolson had a past as a minor part of the Unionists [and was indeed one of the people Cooper got out of the trial], but his success at rebranding himself meant that he could move beyond that. Nicolson was on the NDU Left, and in his time as Prime Minister, he sought to shift the party further towards a strong interventionist approach to the economy, backed up by Butler who kept his job as Chancellor to stave off any challenges.

Lawrence's work would be built on. Infrastructure was something Britain had an abundance of, but those needed to be modernised. And with the Morrell Plan finally negotiated for Britain and France, they could finally properly afford to revamp those, build new houses, create new factories, and end the "Decade of Ruin" that was the late 1940s and early 1950s. As the Prime Minister declared in 1957 - "Things can only get better!".

And indeed, he was correct. As Germany struggled with labour strikes and minor states giving in and letting the SPD into regional government much to Berlin's condemnation, businesses grew to look at the Anglo-French economies as more promising ones to invest in. Lawrence's landslide couldn't be perfectly replicated, but Nicolson got a comfortable victory over Bevan's Socialist Labour all the same.

The European Economic Cooperation continued, and in 1960, Nicolson and Mollet [by then aiming to retire] pulled off a coup by negotiating Italy's entry. Italy's economy was respectable, and it promised surplus technology it could sell to Britain and France at a low price. This got Germany's hackles up, and as Austria-Hungary was breathing its last, Germany accused the EEC of plotting a Third Great War.

The American Secretary of State phoned Germany, and made it clear that America was not backing Germany in this confrontation, deeming it as unneeded. This led to another run on the banks and that was to prove the end of Henning von Tresckow as Chancellor. Germany would have another period of internal crisis leading to the rise of the considerably-more liberal Gustav Heinemann, who was believed to be amenable enough for the SPD.

The Profumo affair led to more scrutiny towards what was before then overlooked in the heady daze - the Prime Minister's own relationships with many men. With his wife dying of abdominal cancer and more questions being asked of him of his past, he chose to resign in early 1962.

Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (National Democratic majority) 1962-1969
1964: def. Harold Wilson (Socialist Labour)
"The Fourteenth Mr. Home"
With the polling all suggesting a comfortable SLP lead, the Earl of Home had a high mountain to climb. Rolling up his sleeves, he got on it. Known as a keen man on foreign policy but with very little understanding of economics, he just entrusted his Chancellor, Tony Crosland, to keep the machine purring along and ensuring British reconstruction and renewal continued.

And this Crosland did. His priorities as Chancellor was the end of poverty, which he did by expanding welfare services and together with the SLP, managed to pass universal healthcare over the NDU Right's objections. Home himself was considered a moderate, relatively, of the NDU, due to his disinterest in domestic matters, but this led to grumblings, increasingly louder grumblings, from the Party's Right.

In foreign affairs, Home was keenly interested in Lawrence and Nicolson's anticolonial policies. He sought to fund the more moderate aspects of the anticolonial movements in German [no longer also Italian] colonies, and headed the first diplomatic visit to the Indian Federation since it got independence at the end of GW2. This was considered a high call, since Churchill's war crimes cast a large shadow over British-Indian relations. But as Home shook hands with Nehru and pledged a warmer, more cooperative future between Britain and India, this was a diplomatic coup for the ages.

And it had its benefit outside India of course. It removed India as a reason anticolonial movements distrusted Anglo-French support, and most crucially, endeared the Euro-Entente [as the EEC was increasingly informally referred to in the Anglophone world] to an American audience keen on reconciliation of former enemies after almost twenty decades of reintegrating the South.

With Crosland's policies placing the tanks of anti-poverty campaigns on the SLP's lawn and Home returning to Britain in triumph, the 1964 election turned out to be an upset and the SLP only took another 10 seats from the NDU. Not enough to bring down the NDU. Not yet.

That was the zenith of Home's government of course. It could only go downhill from here.

The NDU Right gave an ultimatum to Home, pick a less "leftist" Chancellor, or face a party split. Home chose to replace Crosland with Edward Heath, who was more of a moderate figure, but he gave Crosland Education to appease the Left. This would create issues down the line.

With the Anglophile Lovecraft replaced by a more pro-German figure in Democrat John Kennedy, the previous windfall that was the Morrell Plan was turned off in Kennedy's quest to make good with Germany and re-establish the "world police" double team. This necessited a response. Britain and France was by the 60s much more stable economically, but as much as the remaining autarks on the left and right hated admitting it, the two countries were extremely dependent on each other. The Euro-Entente needed strengthening in those lean years ahead.

Two nations were top of the list for addition according to France. Spain and Portugal. The former was under a firmly anti-monarchist form of fascism under José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and the later was led by António de Oliveira Salazar, a man who rejected his country's monarchists because he believed they went against Catholic social teaching. With the German-dominated European order so favouring monarchies, it benefited Britain to lean into the fact the Euro-Entente was non-ideological and welcomed republics, according to France.

Two nations were top of the list for addition according to Britain. Belgium and the Netherlands. The former, despite the sunbomb incident, was always dominated by people who regarded the Entente as the faction more aligned to their interests, and the German occupation of 1945-50 only worsened their opinions of Germany. The Netherlands was pro-German once, yes, but a new generation of Dutch people has grown up resenting German economic domination of their country. The Euro-Entente had as one of its selling points that it was one of "equals", unlike the German-dominated Mitteleuropa, and hence this would win over a formerly pro-German country, according to Britain.

Home and new French President Jacques Delmas ended up agreeing to aim for them all in an aggressive diplomatic push. In what would prove to be the last of the luck for Prime Minister Home, this push came at the same time as Germany was in a shouting match with Russia fuelled by the military yearning for yet another fight. This created the sense of urgency that proved crucial for the rapid growth of the Euro-Entente.

However, it came with issues. Portugal was the only one of the GW2 Entente to keep its colonies [even France lost theirs, and that was helluva messy] and this did not gel well with the Entente's anticolonialist reputation. Salazar refused to budge, and in the end, a quiet deal between Britain and France meant that de facto Portugal's colonies did not get the same protection as the Portuguese mainland.

Meanwhile, on domestic matters, Crosland was determined to "modernise" education by getting rid of the old grammar school system. The Comprehensive System was set in place by Nicolson's government (which he staved off a right-wing rebellion by making it clear it only applied to new schools) and now Crosland [a firm follower of Nicolson's ideas] wished to complete the process. He issued a department circular instructing the provincial governments and local governments to begin converting grammar schools to comprehensive.

The NDU Right exploded with fury and Home came back from Paris to a party in civil war.

Being a man of the old school, Home was opposed to this, but knew he had to keep the Left and Right on side. So in one of his few forays into domestic policy, Home amended the circular to devolve the decision itself to the provincial governments, and explicitly earmarked several schools to be protected from "comprehensivation", including his own Eton College. This wasn't enough for the Right, so he also moved Crosland to Foreign Secretary.

This was in many ways putting Crosland into an irrelevant position, as everyone knew that de facto the Prime Minister was his own Foreign Secretary. The Left was sated with some liberalisation of society and the Right received some immigration restriction as well. With the party no longer burning, and rather just seething at a constant, Home turned his attention back to his favourite aspect of governing.

This time, it was Ireland. Ireland was always a running sore. And with an Irish president in America, it behoved Britain to brush over all troubles with Ireland. Unlike other countries, there was to be no lucky coincidence of an amenable leader. While President Erskine Childers was amenable to a reconciliation, Taoiseach Dan Breen certainly was not. A dedicated Irish republican who believed that British anti-colonial rhetoric was false and any reconciliation would be merely a disastrous mistake for Ireland, he sought to frustrate British efforts.

The futile negotiations would engulf Home's diplomatic efforts and lead to France taking the lead in the Euro-Entente for the rest of his time in power. There seemed to be some light at the end of the tunnel in early 1969 with a possible Liverpool meeting then... bang.

Geoffrey Rippon (National Democratic majority) 1969-1974
1969: def. Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
"Entente Formidable"
The Prime Minister's body laid on the ground, head bleeding out, life gone from the eyes. A nation shocked. A government wanting answers. And answers it would find, but those would shock the world. The gun was tracked to its purchaser, who squealed on who paid him off, and that man named the woman who hired him to do so. The woman in question, after intensive interrogation, admitted who ordered her to do it all.

Taoiseach of the Irish Republic Dan Breen. New Prime Minister Geoffrey Rippon, shoved in the role after the NDU Right got their way, demanded justice for Home. Anglo-Irish relations cratered as a result of the information coming out, and despite an attempt to remove him, Breen held on through the dissolving of the Dail and vocally declared in an infamous speech "The English is and shall always be the mortal enemy of the Irish".

A harrowed President Kennedy was forced to condemn Breen's regime, saying in a firm tone "As an Irishman, Dan Breen does not speak for me, and he does not speak for any Irishman but his own twisted vision. My condolences goes to Prime Minister Home's family". Shortly after that, he declared his intention to resign from office, commonly attested to a collapse in his health.

The 1969 election was always going to be a NDU victory after Home's death. He may have been a distanced aristocrat who was much more interested in foreign policy than Britain, but facts didn't matter after he was shot. He was now a martyr for human rights, for reconciliation and for what he commonly called "a certain idea of Britain". 53 seats switched from SLP to NDU off that martyrdom, and the SLP suffered a fourth loss.

Rippon held no love of the Irish, but he was a firm Euro-federalist, even more so than the general "pro-Euro-Entente" feeling of the average Briton. And with Home's death, Rippon's belief was solid. Britain needed to improve its diplomatic clout even more to prevent another assassination. The only way was Euro-Entente. Breen's regime was a constant threat to Britain, and it aggravated near everyone in British society despite Germany declaring Ireland was still under their protection. Rippon started negotiation with the rest of the Euro-Entente for further cooperation.

This would dominate his five years as Prime Minister, however the marked shift of domestic policy from the old "Butler-Crosland" policies to a more right-wing one would create controversy, and give ammo to the Opposition to use with the moderate voters. With Rippon, he had his own balancing to do. The broader NDU Right wasn't entirely on board the idea of further integration, in fact they were quite opposed and he was very much the exception. However, they could be sated, for now, with more right-wing fiscal policy.

Spending was reduced, tax levels were cut, and "slim government" was the word of the day. That and the negotiations. Which even for the Euro-Entente, proved a nightmare as national interests started to clash. France doubted many of Rippon's more out-there proposals, preferring the "association" model. In the end, the negotiations concluded in early 1974 with an agreement to consolidate the various economic organisations into one European organisation, the European Association, or EA for short, albeit not much changed in the end.

By then, the economy was getting sluggish. The years of using up the last of the Morrell Plan's money was at an end. And turns out cutting spending leads to less people spending. The British people was ready for a change.

Peter Shore (Socialist Labour majority) 1974-pres.
1974: def. Geoffrey Rippon (National Democratic)
"Shepherd's Warning"
The newest Prime Minister, Peter Shore, walks as a contradiction upon himself. A firm British nationalist who jealously guards economic powers, he nevertheless champions European trade, the Euro-Entente and the EA. Perhaps that's just reflective of how British society has shifted and how comprehensively the old dreams of Empire or Commonwealth has died. Britain is truly a small island amidst the territory of giants.

Heading Britain's first left-wing government in its entire history, his party is one of idealists, trade unionists [emphasis on trade] and the odd defector. Or to sum it up, inexperienced people. The only people who knew how to govern, out of his lot, were the ones who came from provincial politics in the North. And provincial politics, to be charitable, is very little like Parliament politics...

The Socialist Labour Party nevertheless has grand plans for the country. Crosland's brief anti-poverty campaign was restarted and focused intensely on more poor regions such as the North or Wales, using tax-and-spend methods to improve opportunities, welfare and labour rights. More controversially was the centralisation of power to Parliament, reducing provincial powers considerably. It was justified on efficiency grounds, but it would lead to a backlash way after the ending of this list. But it does come.

Industrial policy was since the Lawrence years focused on developing domestic industry, but under Shore it amped up. He established a Department of Industrial Development, and emphasised its importance in every speech. Trade unions would find that their would get a warmer reception with Shore than with any other Prime Minister, which was to be expected, but it was nice to see.

As part of the growing clout of the Anglo-French partnership, the Concorde was first flew in the air in the first few months of Shore's ministry. This was symbolic of the post-war generations of British and French's intense hopes and dreams for a better future. If that future is to be realised, Shore thought, the hand of the superbomb would have to be ended. Acutely aware of the old promises American President Dewey proclaimed after his election victory, and how easily those promises were mislaid, he realised that it had to take an international treaty to force the issue. No mere words would.

As fortune has it his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, was himself similarly opposed to superbombs and agreed to participate in Shore's possible conference. They also discussed the fate of Austria-Hungary, and how it would weaken Mitteleuropa and benefit the Euro-Entente. They disagreed on a lot, but recognised the common interest both countries had in this conference going well.

The United States' President, Joshua Blackford, accepted the invitation to the conference, and pledged to renew Dewey's pledges with a goal to end superbombs and sunbombs around the world. It would require negotiations on the details, indeed, but he was cooperative. After all, haven't Britain and France been rather cooperative with America, and the idea fit very well within American "world police" thinking.

The German Chancellor at first refused. But hearing of President Blackford accepting, he rushed to do the same. German internal politics was almost bursting at the seams. The SPD was increasingly more and more radical by the day, some of their controlled Kingdoms barely pay attention to Berlin, while their erstwhile ally in Austria-Hungary was falling apart. Mitteleuropa was on a clock. Germany was on a clock.

Tick, Tock...

Shore and Chirac prepared for the conference meticulously. Even as news come in of Japan's horrific collapse [don't ask where the Koreans got those guns stamped 'MADE IN EA' from], of growing decolonialisation [with even Portugal giving in in 1975] and more pro-EE states in the world, the two were focused firmly on the conference. Even as Ireland fell into a civil war between Breenites and liberals, or the Ottoman Empire finally releasing Syria as part of a peace deal, the two were very focused on making sure it went well.

Tick, Tock...

And it did. They managed to convince most of the world leaders to accept dismantling of superbombs and sunbombs, highlighting that they brought nothing but horror in the past, and if everyone was to mutually disarm, this piling would cease. The treaty was then ready for signing.

Tick, Tock...

The German Chancellor refused of course. Jealously protective of his country's sunbombs, he brought out the old Tresckowite accusation that this whole conference was nothing but plotting to undermine Germany, he declared "we won the wars! Two of them!" and left with his delegation.

Tick, Tock...

Fifteen minutes later, the fate of Europe was sealed with a flick of President Blackford's wrist as he left his name on the treaty, and then shook the hands of both Prime Minister Shore and President Chirac, thanking them for setting the conference up, and firmly deploring Germany's "belligerent" actions.

BONG!

And history would say that Germany won the war, but Britain and France won the peace.
 
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A Series of President Smiths (Pt. 2): The Voice of God

1841: William H. Harrison (Whig)
(with John Tyler)
def. 1840 Martin Van Buren (Democratic)
1841-1842: John Tyler* (Whig then Independent) [Vice President Acting President]
1842-1843: Samuel Southard (Whig) [President Pro Tempore Acting President]

1843-1847: Henry Clay (Whig)

(with John Davis) def. 1842 Lewis Cass (Democratic), James G. Birney (Liberty)
1847: Joseph Smith (Independent)††
(with Sidney Rigdon) def. 1846 Henry Clay (Whig), Martin Van Buren (Democratic), John Tyler (New Democratic-Republican), James G. Birney (Liberty)
1847: Sidney Rigdon (Independent)* [Vice President Acting President]
1847-1848: David Rice Atchison (Democratic) [President Pro Tempore Acting President]

1848-1849: David Rice Atchison (Democratic)

(with William R. King) def. 1847 John P. Hale (Liberty), Daniel Webster (Whig), John Tyler (New Democratic-Republican)

1849 American Civil War Begins FREEDOM vs LAW AND ORDER following the Ban on the Church of Jesus Christ

Presidents of the United States (Freedom)
1849-1850: Gerrit Smith (Freedom)
(with Daniel Webster)
1850-1855: John Brown (Freedom)
(with Sidney Rigdon)


Presidents of the United States (Law and Order)
1849-1851: David Rice Atchison (Democratic)††

(with William R. King)
1851-1854: William O. Butler (U.S. Army) [Under Martial Law]

1854 American Civil War ends, Freedom Victory Constitutional Convention

1855-1861: Levi Coffin (Freedom)
def. 1854 Sidney Rigdon (People's), George Bancroft (Democratic)


Continuing on in my President Smith series, here Smith wins an Independent Campaign following the Disastrous Tyler "Acting Presidency", the Texas issue festers even worse than OTL, And a [preternaturally-charismatic-]Smith beats a divided field being the only pro-annexation Candidate. However Smith is shot by a mysterious gunman after his attempt to enact his Gradual Abolition plan, and his Vice President is impeached on trumped-up charges. However the straw that breaks the camel's back is President Atchison's Ban on the Church of Jesus Christ, which sets off the American Civil War between Atchison and Gerrit Smith's coalition of Religious Freedom advocates, Abolitionists, and European Revolutionaries.
 
I had the idea of doing a Not-quite-Memorial Timeline about Ron Paul since he stroked out the other day on air. And it occurred to me, had he not run in 1988 as the Libertarian nominee he would have been perfectly placed to pull a march on Pat Buchanan in the 1992 election stealing the White Nationalist vote from David Duke. If Ron Paul is the man who spouts off the "Culture War" speech or something like that, there's a distinct chance that say, if Gore wins in 2000 and Paul holds onto his seat in the time in between that he could get himself elected in 2004 and then I don't really want to do the list because that involves Richard Spencer as his Stephen Miller. Seems like a horrible world.
 
I had the idea of doing a Not-quite-Memorial Timeline about Ron Paul since he stroked out the other day on air. And it occurred to me, had he not run in 1988 as the Libertarian nominee he would have been perfectly placed to pull a march on Pat Buchanan in the 1992 election stealing the White Nationalist vote from David Duke. If Ron Paul is the man who spouts off the "Culture War" speech or something like that, there's a distinct chance that say, if Gore wins in 2000 and Paul holds onto his seat in the time in between that he could get himself elected in 2004 and then I don't really want to do the list because that involves Richard Spencer as his Stephen Miller. Seems like a horrible world.
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